Ikarus E95

The Ikarus E95, sold as the Ikarus 395 until 1997, was a long-distance bus of the Ikarus Egyedi Autóbuszgyár, the custom bus works that carried on the Ikarus name. It filled a gap in intercity service, mainly for the Volán companies, but its equipment and appearance also suited international and tourist traffic. It was built mostly on Rába, Volvo and Scania chassis with manual gearboxes at a length of 12 metres, with longer and automatic versions, versions driven by Detroit Diesel engines, and a DAF-chassis version for an Italian order; the Rába-chassis bus could also be ordered with a MAN engine. Torma Lajos set the direction of the body development, and the front and rear were restyled in 2001. In 2003 the E95 Express appeared, 12.9 metres long with a higher floor and a second door behind the rear axle, meant as the common successor of the E95 and E98. Its E95M version on a Rába chassis with a Mercedes engine won the Hungarian Defence Forces tender, about 20 buses, while only three Scania-chassis Express buses were made. Production of the Express, and with it the E95, ended in 2005.